These industries were based in towns including Salem and Gloucester, which honor their heydays with national historic parks.

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The silent movie, the Viennese symphony and the epic poem all had their heydays in the past.

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Balenciaga, Burberry and Goyard have been revived past their initial heydays decades ago and are viable and lively once again.

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Stuart Schonberger, managing director, CDH, emphasizes that Chinese venture investing in startups is returning to normal level after the heydays.

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In both 1933 and 1965, liberal majorities imposed vast expansions of government that have never been repealed, and the current financial panic may give today's left another pretext to return to those heydays of welfare-state liberalism.

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They were all bigger than life, literally and figuratively, in their heydays -- from towering, 6-foot-9 inch Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden to the "Big Tuna, " the moniker given to legendary and well-traveled coach Bill Parcells.

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And of that total 65% of them were Brazilians coming home after years spent in a U.S. they no longer recognize from the Brazilian immigration heydays that began out of Governador Valdares, a small city in Minas Gerais state that had as many people living in Massachusetts, New Jersey and California, than were living there in the 1990s.

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